How do you kill this stinking Primate Artorius!?!?

Pantherra · June 2016

He snares me somehow, despite all my anti-snare stuff, then kills me because I can't break free no matter what I try. Anyone able to explain what I need to do?

Edited to remove masked profanity

Abeille · June 2016

Don't waste stamina, so you can break free when he snares you.

Ep1kMalware · June 2016

if all else fails start heavy attacking at 30% stamina.

Acrolas · June 2016

You put him in a zoo and then shoot him.

...

What, too soon?

peniku8 · June 2016

Acrolas wrote: »

You put him in a zoo and then shoot him.

...

What, too soon?

Ohh, triggered!

Haenk · June 2016

I currently am stuck at this fight as well.
Can't break free, even with full stamina, pets keep on fighting, but will eventually die.
Everything is frozen (multiple times during the fight, actually) and even a hundred Ultimate-shots didn't kill him (brought him down to almost zero health though).

Not sure if I'm too weak for this fight, there is a simple mechanism or if this a game breaking bug.

Troneon · June 2016

Play a magicka templar and laugh at him...I joke I joke....

I will be doing this quest today so will tell you all how I owned him first try

Khenarthi · June 2016

In my magblade, I broke free whenever I could, healed myself, and kept fighting. Dodgerolling out of red on floor helps. Also, make sure you have enough health to survive while being rooted.

Haenk · June 2016

Khenarthi wrote: »

In my magblade, I broke free whenever I could, healed myself, and kept fighting. Dodgerolling out of red on floor helps. Also, make sure you have enough health to survive while being rooted.

Well, I couldn't break free at all, full health and stamina. Using staff and pets, I keep good distance, so red floor is not an issue. Once he freezes time, I'm pretty much dead - since I can't do anything. Breaking free, dodge rolling, potions, spells, nothing works.

Ruben · June 2016

I don't remember him even being hard... why does it matter if he snares you when he doesn't even move? Stay by his side stabbing him.

Haenk · June 2016

Ruben wrote: »

I don't remember him even being hard... why does it matter if he snares you when he doesn't even move? Stay by his side stabbing him.

Well, he "freezes time", i.e. the whole fight / party cannot move or fight or do *something*. Except for pets, which will keep on fighting until they die. And except for Artorius, who will jump right next to you and keeps on fighting *you*. Without any way to react or to fight back. The freeze lasts for quite a long time (15 sec, 30 sec?).

Teridaxus · June 2016

Only because the circle on the ground is not red, don't stand in it.
The yellow is evil!

Martinus72 · June 2016

Are there still any challenging quests left yet? I'm quite shocked and actually glad if that's the case because I'm mind numbed while levelling my DK alt and just steam rolling over everything including world bosses, not even mentioning solo quests.
I do remember exactly same quests and bosses 2 years ago when they were fun and challenging, actually demanding some tactic and thinking and it makes me sad - why o why everything in every MMORPG has to be dumbed down to the ground to please the public...

Runs · June 2016

Haenk wrote: »

Ruben wrote: »

I don't remember him even being hard... why does it matter if he snares you when he doesn't even move? Stay by his side stabbing him.

Well, he "freezes time", i.e. the whole fight / party cannot move or fight or do *something*. Except for pets, which will keep on fighting until they die. And except for Artorius, who will jump right next to you and keeps on fighting *you*. Without any way to react or to fight back. The freeze lasts for quite a long time (15 sec, 30 sec?).

That sounds like a completely different fight than the one I had.

He freezes time, I break free then me and him fight a bit and he jumps back throws on a shield and I'm back to heavy attacking the adds, to save resources for him, while the other members fight them. Rinse and repeated till he died. At least that's how I remember it.

Taisynn · June 2016

I just did this quest and honestly, it took me a while with my Stamina-Bow Nightblade. I used draining shot on the extra enemies for healing; then I would use poison injection and Lethal Aim. I used alchemy made potions which increased my weapon crit, health, and stamina at the same time. And I used Hindering Poisons; mine just happens to immobilize him and drain health while siphoning it to me. Very helpful.

This still took me 3 times; I died a few times and had to start over. Luckily, I succeeded. But barely.

I highly reccomend an execute... Because you'll need it.

Remember to right click then left click to break free when he freezes you. It DOES work.

ESO_Maya · June 2016

hi everyone

I had to take 2 guildees with me, one of them was a Sorc w/ pet. Your helpers only need access to the db dlc to go in, don't have to be on quest or anything. 2 of us were frozen at any one time, and the pet never seemed to be frozen. Good luck!

GreenhaloX · June 2016

Oh great.. just when you wouldn't think there would be anything more harder than Maelstrom for those of us with lower CP, now there is this crazy fight to look forward to.

ADarklore · June 2016

Strange, I just found a YouTube video of this quest and the player was only CP 212 and plays Sorcerer and does it fairly easily- even with what I would call a 'lack of skill'... they don't seem to know what a DoT is and instead kept using heavy attacks and pets to do damage while only occasionally dropping a DoT. Honestly, if this player can get through it like this, can't imagine anyone else would have problems. The video showed him being able to break out of CC as soon as they were frozen, so I'm not sure why it was not working in your case OP, as clearly it shows being able to use the 'break free' to get out of the CC. Did you run out of Stamina prior to being CC'd?

opaj · June 2016

I also wasn't able to consistently break free of the time freeze, but he starts giving a speech ("I am the master of time" or somesuch) just before doing it, so it gave me enough time to throw up a Harness Magicka. I'm playing kind of a weird build right now -- magblade with 5 medium Pelinal's to pump up spell damage and sneak-ability at the cost of magicka sustain -- so it was a struggle to have enough magicka at all times, but the fight was doable.

Just keep trying. Test out different strategies. It's a tough fight, but not impossible.

vyndral13preub18_ESO · June 2016

I dont know if this will help or not, but on pc i would encourage anyone having problems with break free to remap it to a single button. I spent a long time fighting trying to get break free to work consistently, finally tried remapping it to '6' and no further problems.

Like i said might not be your issue, i havent even done this fight. But good luck!

Haenk · June 2016

Tried again with 32bit instead of 64bit client; this time, the freeze debuff displayed correctly and I have been able to break free easily. A bit of fighting here & there plus a few overloads, not too challenging after all.
So either the 64bit client bugged out on me or something else went on.

failkiwib16_ESO · June 2016

Try putting up a shield + have a Heal-over-Time spell active ....I don't know wether this quest is bugged or not, but when I encounter any problems in solo content, a shield & HoT usually fixes it for me.

prnoprno · June 2016

501+cp magicka templar, I don't even remember getting snared the fight was so brief

notimetocare · June 2016

Fight was so easy...v15 gear on a stamblade (sneak speed gear lol)

majulook · June 2016

Magicka DK - took him out quick

Telel · June 2016

Telel just kept weaving in heavy attacks with a surprise stabbing to add flavor. Sprinkle caltrops and volley to properly season the minion side dish until proper temporal wackiness ensues. At that point this one pressed the number 9 on their gaming mouse which is linked to the interrupt action.

This one then pressed R, and added a dash of AHM A WEREWOLF MOTHER $%$#@$# until lunch was served.

He tasted delicious.

danno8 · June 2016

I recall him saying something about being the "master of time" or some such. Everyone else froze but not me.

I just kept fighting and killing everything. Seemed about as hard as the first round of normal Maelstrom. So pretty easy.

Troneon · June 2016

Troneon wrote: »

Play a magicka templar and laugh at him...I joke I joke....

I will be doing this quest today so will tell you all how I owned him first try

Sorry to say but I just killed him first time in less than 30 seconds on my magicka templar without going less than 90% health....

Serenityx · June 2016

Acrolas wrote: »

You put him in a zoo and then shoot him.

...

What, too soon?

Oh my god. LOL

magnusthorek · June 2016

Who the h*ck is Primate Artorius? Is he the last guy of DB DLC? If so I didn't even swet

starkerealm · June 2016

magnusthorek wrote: »

Who the h*ck is Primate Artorius? Is he the last guy of DB DLC? If so I didn't even swet

I'm honestly not sure. I think it was someone I ripped limb from limb as a werewolf, and never looked back at.